Finance and Support Services Officer
- Employer
- Sightsavers
- Location
- Zambia (ZM)
- Salary
- Local terms and conditions apply
- Closing date
- 24 Nov 2019
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- Function
- Administration, Finance & Legal, International Development
- Sector
- Disability, Health & Medical, International
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Contract
Job Details
Sightsavers seeks to recruit a Finance and Support Services Officer. We are looking for an experienced, self-driven and result oriented accounting professional who is keen to develop their career in a dynamic organisation and challenging environment.
Location: Zambia
Salary: Local terms and conditions will apply
Contract: One Year Fixed Term Contract
The Finance and Support Services Officer will provide a range of financial administration support, grants and contract management/ reporting and information management support for the effectiveness of the Zambia Country Office programme operations.
About the Role
This role predominantly involves working on the utilisation of Financial Resources and reporting, being involved with planning and budgeting, having input into Grant Management by determining financial management capacity and soundness of systems and liaising with the Regional Finance Manager and Country Office staff.
This is a varied role and duties will include (but are not limited to):
- The preparation and processing of Country Office Fund requests, transfers and Supplier/ Service Provider payments
- Reviewing payment claims/ invoices
- Preparing monthly journals
- Reconciling control accounts on a monthly/ quarterly basis
- Timely and accurate data entry of financial transactions into Sun System
- General support of the Finance and Support Services Manager
- Preparation of the Country Office payroll
- Providing support of the Country Office programme budget preparations and donor reporting
- Coordination of renewals of vendor and service provider contracts, insurance policies and agreements
- Developing and maintaining good relations with partners, external suppliers and service providers to ZCO
About You
You will have:
- A degree in Business Administration or relevant fields and at least a level 2 accounting qualification
- Extensive working experience, ideally gained within an international NGO – audit experience would be an advantage
- Strong financial, programme and project management experience
- A grant accounting and reporting background
- Experience in working with partner organisations
- Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Sound experience/ knowledge of etiquettes and good interpersonal skills
To find out more about the duties and entry requirements, please refer to the Job Description.
We anticipate that interviews for this role will take place w/c 16 December 2019.
We will be contacting short-listed candidates for interview shortly after the closing date.
As an equal opportunities employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Company
Sightsavers Head Office
35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex RH16 3BW
Postal Address
Bumpers Way,
Bumpers Farm,
Chippenham SN14 6NG
Sightsavers is an international charity that works in more than 30 countries around the world to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. Sightsavers is headquartered in the UK and has over 400 employees. It also has branches in Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, India, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
Sightsavers works with partners in order to provide a comprehensive range of eye care services. In 2013, Sightsavers' projects provided eye health examinations for nearly 14 million people, performed 300,000 eye operations, and treated over 100 million people for neglected tropical diseases.
People are also referred for treatment to prevent blindness or restore sight. Through community volunteers in developing countries, Sightsavers distributes medication to prevent blinding diseases. The charity also trains eye care workers and surgeons and funds operations.
Of the 30 countries Sightsavers works in, 23 are in Africa. These include Mozambique, Mali, Liberia and Kenya. Sightsavers is also present in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean.
In addition to its medical work, Sightsavers works with partners in order to train specialist teaching staff and supply glasses, Braille kits and other learning tools. The charity aims to educate communities and reduce stigma around visual impairment and blindness. Through its work, people with visual impairments and other disabilities are supported to live independently, get an education and earn an income.
Sightsavers is also a campaigning organisation, working with national governments to tackle the root causes of avoidable blindness, such as lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities. The charity’s ‘Put us in the Picture’ campaign calls on the international community to make global development inclusive of the world’s 800m people with disabilities. The campaign’s vision is for all people to have equal access to employment, education, healthcare and participation in society.
Backing up Sightsavers’ work around the world is a strong research capability. Research and policy work revolves around three priorities – health, education and social inclusion. Gathering and disseminating sound research evidence helps to ensure the charity’s programmes meet the needs of the people they are designed to serve. Research evidence is also a strong tool when advocating for policy changes with governments.
Sightsavers has many partners that assist with its aim of eliminating avoidable blindness and may also provide funding. Partners include the UK government’s Department for International Development, the European Union and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read our latest article on Third Sector: Sightsavers: Work for an award-winning charity tackling blindness worldwide
- Website
- http://jobs.sightsavers.org/
- Telephone
- 01444 446600
- Location
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35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex
RH16 3BW
GB
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